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“One of the police spotters alerted the shooter to an oncoming child approaching on a scooter, who was about 50 metres away, however the shot was taken at that moment,” a police spokesperson told 9NEWS.

Local police have spoken to the boy’s parents.

No one was injured, and a review will be undertaken as is protocol in “all instances where a firearm is discharged by police”.